Selwyn Fellow David Newland, an emeritus professor in engineering, will be giving a public talk in the Engineering Department
on Friday, March 13th.
The subject is centrifugal vibration absorbers and some applied mechanics history, which is explained as follows. "To meet
emission targets, car engines have become smaller and more highly-powered than they used to be. Lighter engines are more
prone to vibration and that has led to the introduction of centrifugal pendulum vibration absorbers to reduce noise and wear.
The history and design of these curious devices will be described. Current problems with their use as a component of
dual-mass flywheels (a standard part of most modern cars) will be discussed and recent research results described. The talk
will include extracts from a video of the late Professor Den Hartog of MIT lecturing on this subject in the 1970s."
Full details of the talk, timing and venue can be found at
href="http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/57107">http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/57107
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